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Nic Pizzolatto

Profession : Novelist

Birth : October 18, 1975

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.

Nic Pizzolatto

If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made, and you know what pre-production is, then mostly it's making sure the actors get what they need, and you are providing creative oversight while allowing room for everyone else to own the material, too.

Nic Pizzolatto

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

Nic Pizzolatto

I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV.

Nic Pizzolatto

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

Nic Pizzolatto

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

Nic Pizzolatto